Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-02-02

corn and flour.
The measles epidemic is subsiding. There
are very few new cases reported. Eight
members of Mr.. w. H. Edwards family,
in Ebenezer township, are down with the
complaint. Hail.
SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS.
- The oat crop in Laurens has been slight
ly injured by the cold.
Mr.. Cal. Reeves, of Lancaster county,
has killed 460 partridges this year.
In several counties candidates are already
mentioned for the county Offices in 1888.
Rabbits are said to be more numerous in
Anderson county than ever before known.
XA number of farmers of Lancaster coun-
<y are buying corn for the first time since
the war.
Fifteen applicants, including two ladies,
were examined by the Civil Service COM
mission at Columbia on Thursday last.
On January 4, 1887 the deposits in the
Winnsboro National Bank on hand subject
to check amounted to $4,000. On the same
date in 1886, they were S57 600.
One year ago Col. A. +. Cheatham, OF
Edgefeld, bought brick store for 81 900,
and now that it is settled that Edgefeld is
soon to have railroad, he has sold it for
$1,700.
The Shelby NeW Era learns that L. NJ.
Campbell, of Scranton, Pa, has purchased
of R. r. Darwin, of Blacks, the Flint Hill
mine, situated in Union county, and sold
the same to New York company.
- Mrs. Mary J. Davis, of Union county,
near Wikinsville, died on the oath ultimo
at the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
Whisonant, in her 6Sth year. Her maiden
name was Cunning, and she was horn IN
Chester county.
Says the Spartanburg Spartan: Last sea-
son there were II, 500 bales of cotton sold in
our market. The receipts this season fall
short of that number $500 bales. Nearly as
much cotton was sold at Clinton and Glen
dale as was sold here.
On the Goth ultimo, while the freight
train from Chester, S. c., was crossing Cove
creek trestle, two miles from Lancaster, the
trestle gave way and six cars were precipi-
tated into the creek, completely wrecking
them. Green Lilly. a colored brakeman,
was killed, and David Greene, another COL
ored brakeman, was injured. The State
Railroad Commission is investigating the
cause of the accident.
The board of county commissioners Of
KershaW met in Camden last Friday and
considered the petition presented them at
their last meeting, asking that an election
be held in Dekalb township, to decide
whether or not said township will vote a
subscription of forty thousand dollars to the
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail-
road. A sufficient number of free holders
in the township having signed the petition,
the election was ordered to be held on the
third day of March.
H. F. Evins, an old printer, died at
Spartanburg last Thursday. He was about
seventy-three years old. He came to Spar
tanburg about 1854, and has worked under
every editor in the Spartan Office up to 1878,
when he quit the case. He was born in
New Hampshire, and was a neighbor of
Franklin Pierce, when they were boys.
"Old Dad," as the boys about the office have
called him for the last thirty years, was
typical printer of the old style. He was al
ways faithful to his case and the interests of.
this paper, and week after week he watch
ed every issue of the Spartan with as much
care as if the fate of the country depended
on it. While he was able he visited the Of
flee several times week, and was always
on hand on publication day. He was kind
hearted, generous and just to all.